Wall Street, thru their Congressional advocates, Republicans and so called-Third Way- " Center " Democrats is focused on its traditional Objectives: dismantling gradually our Nation safety net (to decrease expenses so the 1% can pay less taxes), and to privatize, also bit by bit, Social Security (which would generate billions of income fees for them, as financial advisors, and would make their large Banks and Brokerage firms more than "too large to fail", for if their Investments failed, thousands of small investors would be left in poverty, so the Government would have to come to their rescue with our taxpayer's money). There is, on the other hand a clear mandate for this second Obama Administration to pursue and enact Progressive legislations as shown by the proportion of voters that sided with the issues addressed by them (60%) in exit polls taken this past Elections. So, this is a unique opportunity for the Obama Administration to stand firmly and become a truly transformational Presidency like FDR's and LBJ'S.

Since I've recently become a Widow after 38 years of filing as 'married filing jointly', I find it quite obscene and unfair to be considered 'single'! Perhaps, for dating purposes, widows, widowers and divorcees can be considered single again, but NOT when it comes to our Income Tax status! Unlike back when I was 21 and single, now I have 'STUFFf' to deal with ,by myself, that most real single people do not have; such as property, houses, cars, timeshares, memberships, debts, loans, family members, children, grandchildren, social security and retirement issues, medical bills, life insurance, auto insurance issues, etc.! Not to mention, maybe no longer having a mortgage interest deduction, no exemptions and dependents, and now, not even your spouse! There needs to be a special status and/or special worksheet created for us ASAP!, before the next tax season. I can help come up with one! If you agree with this, please sign this petition. This is URGENT ! Thank You!

I find it obscene that individuals that are supposed to be legislating for our country's best interests are not required to abide by the financial constraints that we, the people, are expected to accept. They should be required to live with social security and medicare benefits that are legislated for the rest of the country.

We are on the edge of a cliff and Congress and Senate are spending their time posturing instead of actively trying to work with each other on financial and social issues. The people of America want the Congress and Senate to work together...it has happened before! We want them to stop polarizing our country with fear and hatred. It has affected every person in this country.

With Timothy Geithner's imminent departure, President Obama has an opportunity to begin to rectify one of his most egregious derelictions, the seamless implementation of the Bush bank bailout and retention of the Summers-Geithner-Bernanke financial crowd. He can nominate William Black for Treasury Secretary. During the Reagan administration, William Black was one of the principle investigators of the savings and loan scandal. Approximately 1200 indictments resulted from these investigations. His book The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry, University of Texas at Austin Press (April 2005) shows clear understanding of the causes of our various financial debacles. Obama's biggest campaign contributors have been the financial industry. Hopefully, he will sever this compromising relationship and end his presidency with integrity.

Last Tuesday our President, Barack Obama, won a decisive victory after running on a platform of letting the tax cuts for earners making more than $250,000 a year expire. Now as our country faces a fiscal cliff, our Republican controlled Congress would like to pretend that our voices were actually asking for the opposite. It's important that we hold the President and especially congress accountable to the will of the majority. If we'd wanted these tax cuts to be extended Mitt Romney would be President-elect today. If Boehner refuses to compromise or the President in a desire to seem like a 'bipartisan" caves to their re-invention of recent events, they need to know which way the wind is actually blowing. One cannot complain about deficits and then continue ill-conceived tax cuts to those who need it the least. If they send a bill without that particular piece the President should veto it. If we go off the "fiscal cliff" he should stump in each of these Republicans counties in 2014. There must be consequences for this obstructionism, and not just for regular people.

Employers should not be permitted to view a potential candidate's credit profile unless directly handling large sums of money in excess of $5,000 or more on an UNSUPERVISED basis.

With the dreaded "fiscal cliff" looming, we need to push members of Congress to accept tax increases as part of a balanced approach to resolving the deficit. Those in Congress who signed Grover Nordquist's Pledge not to raise taxes must be pressured to band together and Dump the Pledge. America's fiscal future is on the line!

Because of advancements in medicine and better ability to treat life threatening injuries in combat hospitals, more soldiers are coming home from battle with limbs missing and/or serious to mild mental disabilities. These disabilities are preventing many of these soldiers from getting jobs. Too many are ending up addicted to drugs and hopeless. The VA purports to be underfunded and overloaded and has done too little to assist these men and women. It's time to honor and respect them in ways that go beyond mere words.

We were all affected in this campaign year by attack ads funded by large corporations such as those owned by the Koch brothers and individuals like Carl Rove who created PACs to back the candidate that would push through their agendas when they got elected. They were virtually hi-jacking our Democracy and we can't let this happen again... we need to undo the Citizens United ruling before the next election.

Indiana currently practices inequitable, discriminatory, incompetent, arbitrary, unfair and harmful remedies to collect delinquent property taxes which are probably illegal at the federal level, and thus must cease such activity retroactively, returning homes they have "sold" at tax sales to the citizens until fair, legal, equitable, non-discriminatory policies/laws are enacted.

It is about discontinuing President Bush's tax cuts for the rich. It effects our entire country and contributes significantly to our national deficit. Discontinuing these tax cuts is non-negotiable. They never should have occurred in the first place.